cPanel Web Hosting Clarified
For your info, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based Web Hosting offerings on the current website hosting market are provided by a very unsubstantial business niche (as far as annual money flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a type of a small-scale marketing niche, which provides a vast quantity of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying exactly the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the website hosting offerings on the whole website hosting marketplace offer absolutely the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based Web Hosting prices are identical. Quite similar. Leaving for those who demand a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web hosting CP option. Thus, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200k web hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, mind that one...
200k "Web Hosting distributors", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The Web Hosting "variety" and the website hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to just one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of 1000's of different web hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal bloke who's not well aware of (as the majority of us) with the web site creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which actually power the individual domains and web sites. Are you prepared to make your hosting choice? Is there any web hosting alternative you can decide upon? Of course there is, at present there are more than two hundred thousand web hosting distributors out there. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than ninety eight percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique hosting brands worldwide will offer you strictly the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the assortment on the present-day web hosting marketplace is... Period.
The Web Hosting LOTTERY we are all participating in
Simple math shows that to come across a non-cPanel based web hosting vendor is a colossal strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel Web Hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was modish and possibly fulfilled most hosting industry preconditions. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Sign Number 1: A moronic domain name folder setup
If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domains are quite easy to delete on the hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to erase the files of the add-on domains, please. Examine for yourself how great cPanel's domain name folder configuration is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)
Are you getting perplexed? We positively are!
Drawback Number Two: The very same mail folder arrangement
The electronic mail folder arrangement on the hosting server is absolutely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The admin chums firmly increase their faith in God when handling the e-mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too severely.
Negative Side Number 3: A sheer absence of domain name administration interfaces
Do we have to cite the sheer deficiency of a contemporary domain management interface - a place where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or manage domains, modify domain names' Whois details, secure the Whois info, modify/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not supply such a "modern" section at all. That's a mammoth problem. An unforgettable one, we would like to point out...
Weakness Number 4: Multiple user login places (minimum two, max three)
What about the necessity for another login to use the billing, domain name and technical support administration system? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already given by the cPanel-based Web Hosting company. At times, depending on the invoice transaction platform (principally conceived for cPanel only) the cPanel Web Hosting service provider is availing of, the enthusiastic clients can end up with two additional logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management tool; 2: the ticket support software), ending up with a total of three login places (counting cPanel).
Problem Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty web hosting CP departments to get familiar with... rapidly
cPanel offers to your attention more than 120 menus inside the web hosting CP. It's a fantastic idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better grasp them rapidly... That's quite arrogant on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based Web Hosting firms:
As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mind that one as well...
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